Featured: Week of March 4 (Language, Pt. 1)
Word cloud created at WordItOut.com. Love of language bonds writers together, and this week our contributors pay tribute to language, in the first of a two-part series. Joseph Dionne’s poem, “Seeing in French,” uses western nature imagery to explore the nuances of communicating in different languages. Irene O’Garden’s poem, “Puritan Spelling,” looks at how communication has changed with new technology. In “Pit and Pit,” a poem by Kenn Haas, homonyms become a metaphor for different intensities of love. In “Reading...
Read MoreFeatured: Week of Feb. 18 (Winter)
The stark, cold days of winter can turn us inward, as we strive to escape — but cannot forget — the cold. Saul Greenblatt’s humorous short story, “Welcome to the North Country,” provides a vivid picture of winter in the northeastern U.S. Jim Dwyer’s poem, “nothing more than feelings,” captures the tumult of life across the decades, punctuated with cold. Robert Lietz’s poem, “A Need for Speed,” evokes nostalgia for the hard experiences of youth, through winter imagery. Chris Castle’s story, “One...
Read MoreFeatured: Week of Feb. 11 (Valentine’s Day)
This week of Valentine’s Day, our contributors examine love in multiple forms: Janice Westerling’s essay, “Superior Dairy,” captures the love within a family during a father-daughter outing. Peter Obourn’s short story, “Maureen and Sylvia,” perfectly depicts the first hints of young love, in a tale set in the 1950s. Natsumi Tsujimoto’s piece on Trophy Wife’s album, “Sing What Scares You,” is part review, part love letter. In the short story by James Curtiss, “She Walked in Beauty (Or at Least I’m...
Read MoreFeatured: Week of February 4 (Snow)
In the Northern Hemisphere, it is the midst of winter. For some locations, this may mean tons of snow, while in others, there may be only a dusting. This week, Wild Violet’s contributors use snow imagery in conveying their message. In Robert Lavett Smith’s poem, “Daffodils,” regrets become as oddly out of place as daffodils in snow. In Darren C. Demaree’s poem, “A Bare Fist of Snow,” a few words encapsulate a cold but snowless winter. In Raghbir Dhillon’s essay, “My First Snow,” he recalls how a first experience...
Read MoreA Note About the Archives
From the founding of Wild Violet in October 2001 until the beginning of the weekly format in 2012, issues came out on a quarterly, and later, a semiannual basis. Links to all of the issues published with the old numbering format (Vol. I through X) can be found in the “Issue Archives” category, under the “Content” tab. All of the more recent, weekly issues are designated as “Featured: Week of [Date]” and also appear under the “Issue Archives” category. You can also use our Google custom search to look for individual pieces.
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